Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1887-08-07
(Nron ThursdAy's Daily.l


INC tucImouietef IeecnlnS ~ tO-uhy.
Maine produces annually hny car
Dads. or Ave thousand million. wooden
tooth picks.
4, The TuscarorA stage line Is doing a
good business. Eleven passengers went
out yesterday morning and six this
morning.
AniEastern clergyman started his hock
by telling them that ''helI was not so
full Of men. and women. rs men and
women are full Of hell"
Three big teams left this morning Tor
Tuscarora, principally loaded with
heavy machinery for the North Belle
Isle hoisting works.
A barber and q tailor in Oakland late
ly went to a smallpox infested house.
through drunken bravado. and one Of
them is now down with the disease.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. W. Baker arrived
last evening. Nj. Baker. accompanied
by J. W. Dorsey, went to Tuscarora by
stage and Mrs. Baker. returned to Eu-
reka.
.Mr. A. P~eltier. OF Sacramento, father
OF Geo. W. Peltier. of .~ruscnrora. ae-
companied by his daughter. arrived last
evening and left by this mornings stage
for Tuscarora.
Custom made pants" asserts tail
or. We do not suppose this fact can be
denied. Custom is responsible for a
good many disagreeable things.| Bur-
liugton Free Press.
When Richard Murphy, the Irish ora
tor, went over TO Fronce he was bonored
with the title of dictator, dick Tntcrl
~hich would seem to be a very neal ap-
proach to the original.
NJ. Polk, foreman of Scott & Cos.
ranch came down from II ,llrck this
morning. He reports the hay crop bet
ter on that ranch than last year and
they will put up about LOO tons of
hay.
John Marquis. n brnkemnu on No. o.
lad one hand severely injured in coup
ling cars ut CIr'iu last evening. lie
came on here expecting To see DR..
MeigS. aai failing in that went OH to
Osdun.
The price of tobacco has advanced
nearly 30 per cent. and theirs Is some
concern felt In the community lest uu-
principled dealers should avail them
selves Of this preteIt to raise the price
u! cigars.
TheOdor. Winters offers q premium
OF $50 in gold coin for the best and
largest exhibit OF fruit at the State Fair
this Fall. EIko is not a fruit produc-
ing county but for fine stock AMI agri-
cultural products we can't b, beat.
The Commissioners of Humboldt
county allowed bouuties on scaIps To
the amount OF 1926 IL ut their last
meeting. This is little more than once
fourth the amount allowed by the Com-
rn~issioners Of this comfy on the same
date.
ut the friends Of a person in Maine.
Who is commonly known as Blaine,
Do not wish to repeat
His former defeat.
They hSd better not run him again"
At this time Of general drvness there
is danger OF fire. Yesterday n suck of
the wool slowed on the Depot platform
caught fire and, but for an Indian who
on discovering it FASTENED into the of.
ice aud exclaimed sheep sack heap
burn" might have proved disastrous.
A reporter Of the R:no Journal has
interviewed the principal business men
OF that town from whom it is learned
that business generally is better than
il has been for years past. nnd hence
it argues that the boom is on ut the
riverside town. Good enough.
Miss Emma Cullen returned by this
mornings train from n somewhat ex-
tended visit to Kansas. II il rumored,
whether there is any truth in the rumor
or not we are unable to say, that she is
no longer Miss Cullen but II Mrs, hly.
ing struck her affinity beyond the Rock
les.
When we succeed in establishing nm
air line to the moon, md go to stalking
ont corner lots, we shall probably find
that the Kings Of Spain granted most
of the territory to n few Of their sub
jccis two or three centuries ago. It's
queer to think how much dead men
have to say nbout the ownership of
things which only the living can use.
A Democrat thinks that tie next best
thing TO holding Office il a drink
[ Reno Gazette.
What II glorious thing IL must DO for
R]ebublicans to reflect that no member OF
that party was ever known to want nm
Office or take n drink. A Republican
II, cds only a pair Of wings to make him
n full legcd angel.
The Los Angeles Express says. npro.
pos Of the real eVat craze, which:
cclipcs everything else in Southern Cali
fornin, that in a religious meeting tho
o,bcr day. the minister, in referring 10